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Volunteer Opportunity
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Mrs. Doubtfire Services Housekeeping, Food Shopping Airport Runs, Dr. Appointments Runs, 100% cleaned to your satisfaction using my sanitized cleaning method. Also; window cleaning and handy work.
Alda Gilbert 239-910-3427
Hurricane Season is here. We are looking for someone to coordinate the “Special Needs Program”
Description:
–Communicate with Lee County Special Needs Coordinator. –Form a small committee (already have several interested). –Collect and review “Resident Surveys” that are handed out during New Resident Orientation. –Provide information to all residents and have applications available. –Help with applications when needed.
Interested or want to know more? Contact Sue Cook – V.P. at 239-634-8485 or cook19621@comcast.net.
LOANER MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Wheelchairs, Walkers, Canes, Potty chairs, Shower seats and Crutches are available for community residents.
Call one of the following:
Frank Millette 239-543-2954,
Joan Musso 856-498-0261, or Lorraine Milligan 239-731-0346
Please remember to return the items you borrow clean when you are finished, so that other residents may have use of them also.
We will gratefully accept donations of equipment in good working condition.
Thank you.
NOW AVAILABLE TARA WOODS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S COLLARED SHIRTS, HATS AND LANYARDS On sale at the Clubhouse at Saturday Morning Coffee. Contact Lou Dunning or any Board member.
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All lists must be in by the prior day Fridays - Shopping for you at Publix - $10 Tuesdays - Shopping for you at Bealls - $10 Wednesdays - Shopping for you at Walmart - $10 Thursdays - Shopping for you at Home Depot - $10 Mondays - Cleaning/Laundry/Preparing Meals - $25/hour Saturdays - Rides to Events - $15/hour (drop off and pick up) Sundays - Rides to Church - $20/hour (tithe to your driver)
Call us 239-770-7711
Hourly Care Giving in your home by a competent, background checked individual - $25/hour (3 hour minimum)
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Published by the Manheim Historical Society May 25, 1860
“The following is an excellent take off on the questions proposed to be asked by the takers of the census of 1860:
• What is your age? • Where were you born? • Are you married, and if so, how do you like it? • How many children have you, and do they sufficiently resemble you as to preclude the possibility of their belonging to any of your neighbors? • Did you ever have the measles, and if so, how many? • Have you a twin brother several years older than yourself? • Have you parents, and if so, how many of them? • Do you read the New Testament regularly? • What is your fighting weight? • Which do you like best for light reading - The Gunmaker of Moscow, by Cobb, or The President’s last message, by James Buchanan? • Are beans and article of regular diet in your family, and if so, how does it go? • State whether you are blind, deaf, idiotic, or have the heaves? • How many chickens have you, and are they on foot or in the shell? Also, how many succedaneums? • Is there a Strawberry mark on your arm? • Which food do you prefer, rum or mixed drinks?
ARCTIC DRIFT
• State how much pork, Dutch cheese, standard poetry, Gayety paper, slave code, catnip, red flannel, Constitution and Union, old junk, perfumery, coal oil, hoop-skirt you have on hand? • Were you or your wife worth anything when you married, and if not, what proportion of her things were your’n and your things were her’n? • Were you ever in the penitentiary? • Are you troubled with biles? • How many empty bottles have you in the
house?
by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Discard from TW library 2020 during COVID-9 one thousand mile journey to a small outpost. 2008 – a Dirk Pitt novel – there have been Now we find ourselves in 2011, and there over 19 novels regarding Dirk Pitt is crisis in the USA and in the world about
This novel begins in 1848 in Victoria Strait in accelerating of the global warming. A very the Artic Ocean. Two ships locked in the ice of wealthy man pits Canada versus USA to gain the third winter during an exploration by the rights to the ownership of the artic. He will Artic Discovery Service. The two ships, HMS stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enter his Terror and HMS Erebus, led by Sir John Franklin, henchman, who kills anyone who tries to get in were searching for passage from the Atlantic to the way. The battle between this evil man and the Pacific. Sir John Franklin had died during our hero Dirk is quite well done. the first winter, leaving the officers and crew not This was a page turner and at each new knowing exactly how to proceed. Then the years chapter yet another twist occurring. This was my went by and still they were locked. Madness first Cussler novel and I did enjoy reading this overtook the crew of one of the ships, causing the book. I do recommend this as an old-fashioned officers to abandon their ship and make the short mystery set in modern times and involving but harrowing one-half mile journey to the other current issues. This book was fast paced and not ship. Finding this vessel in as much danger; the predictable. Another part that appealed to me ice was beginning to crush the ship. They had was the ending which was quite unexpected. to abandon this ship and make their way on the Pat Dunning
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